Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Habitually taciturn, prone to silence
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Examples
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At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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At far greater houses there was more gayety, at richer houses there was more freedom; the suppression at Mrs. Horn's was a personal, not a social, effect; it was an efflux of her character, demure, silentious, vague, but very correct.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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